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I think you're right -- they must have been deliberately targeted. I haven't seen anything about other DDoS attacks today. DiscountASP has been great -- we've been with them for a year. Their setup sounds as though they had taken more than reasonable precautions against this happening, too...

That seems pretty clear to me. It's really sad when some rogues attack and (even though it's not really their fault) tarnish the reputation of a company otherwise renowned for its stable quality service.

DDOS Mitigated

Full Disclosure: I do work for DiscountASP.NET. We were under a massive DDOS attack off and on for 2 days. It is unclear who the target of the attack is. Typical DDOS attacks are targetted toward a hosting provider's customer.

We did post in our community forum (http://community.discountasp.net) about what happened. To mitigate the attack, we did use an enteprise-class DDOS mitigation service, Prolexic, who is also used by many fortune 500 companies, major ISPs, news sites, and even by other countries. Now our hosting platform is strengthened even more.